Getting the Status of Agent Hosts

When the System Manager is started, it automatically checks the status of all agent hosts if Automatic Startup Status Poll is enabled. For more information, see Section : “General Preferences”.

If the Status field information does not reflect the correct information or displays the Status as Unknown, you can manually update the status information for one or more hosts.

To get the status of agent hosts, follow these steps:

On the System Manager screen, in the Monitored Hosts list, select the hosts status you want to update.
Select one of the following options:
- Click the Status button.
- Choose the Actions > Status Poll menu item.
- Press Shift+F7.
- Right-click in the Monitored Hosts area and select Status Poll from the menu.
The System Manager begins polling the selected hosts and returns an updated value in the Status field. These values are described in Table 4-2.
If No Agent Available is shown for a host, the agent may not be not running, or is still initializing. Recheck the status later. If the agent status does not change, then the following problems may exist:
- The agent may not be running on the host. For more information, see “Starting HP-UX HIDS Agents”.
- The agent host may be down.
- The administration and agent host certificates may not be properly configured. For more information, see “Setting Up HP-UX HIDS Secure Communications”.
- The network may be congested.
- The network link to the host may be unavailable.
See also Appendix F.

Getting the Status of Agent Hosts

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